Dr. Martin Ellingham quotes from Doc Martin

And you reckon these will work, do you?

Dr. Martin Ellingham

No - I just prescribe them for fun.

Doctor. I came here to register.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

That's what I'm doing.

At the library I get a card in five minutes.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

Congratulations. If you get smallpox I'm sure that a good book will great comfort you.

I don't drink any more than anybody else.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

Do you ever find yourself drinking first thing in the morning to steady your nerves or to get over a hangover?

No! Certainly not!

Dr. Martin Ellingham

Do you often find yourself get annoyed with people who observe or criticise your drinking?

(Angrily) That's it! I've had enough! Who the hell do you think you are asking inappropriate questions about something I have not even consulted you about?

Dr. Martin Ellingham

So that's a "yes", then, is it?

Dr. Martin Ellingham

All right, Caroline, I'm going to give you an injection.

(Gets down on one knee, hands clasped together) I'm saying a prayer for you, Caroline.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

(Eyeing Danny) It's a little prick.

Louisa Glasson

Why do you have to upset everyone? When you are with patients, why can't you make an effort? Just *smile*! Try to a small talk! Have a laugh!

Dr. Martin Ellingham

Sick people don't want a laugh. They want a doctor who knows what is doing.

Louisa Glasson

They want a bedside manner.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

A bedside manner can't cure you.

Louisa Glasson

It makes them feel better.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

Can it diagnose an illness in a scanner? Write a prescription?

Louisa Glasson

You know what I mean. Please, for once *just* agree with me. Do *you* know what I'm trying to say?

Dr. Martin Ellingham

Actually I find you hard to understand best of times. Whatever you say or do makes no sense to me.

Louisa Glasson

What are we talking about? Are we talking about...? What are we talking about?

Dr. Martin Ellingham

I'm not quite sure.

PC Mark Mylow

I've got some news.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

What?

PC Mark Mylow

You'll never guess...

Dr. Martin Ellingham

I don't have to.

PC Mark Mylow

Go on. Try.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

No.

(Referring to Mark) Possesses a wonderful naivety, your chum.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

Yeah.

Going to have his work cut out though.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

What do you mean?

Well, the only way he's going to keep her is if he locks her up in a cell. Mind you, you'd have to drug them to keep them. Two peas in a pod you two.

I sometimes wonder, with things not happening for me in London, whether it's a sign. It's a cliché I know but God, sometimes...

Dr. Martin Ellingham

Yes, he works in mysterious ways, doesn't he? Like malaria.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

I know that Dad can be a bit... you know... I'm not like him. You can talk to me.

(Laughs)You are not like him? Can you say that again?

Dr. Martin Ellingham

What?

He's reached at the top of his profession. He is charming. We were happy before you arrived. The perfect marriage. He always touched me under the table in the restaurant and the car. Just like electricity. And then you came along. I knew it was all over. He could never see me as a woman again, I was a mother. A deflated balloon. So I decided I would make things just for we were him and me together. I put you in a boarding school, I sent you to spend the summers here with Joan. Somehow you were always there between us. Always needy. With bullied. Wetting your bed.

PC Mark Mylow

Doc. Julie and I are getting married as you know.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

Yes.

PC Mark Mylow

Thank you. I was wondering. Would you be my best man?

Dr. Martin Ellingham

No.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

I'm sure that unless this is absolutly an emergency...

Louisa Glasson

I'll consider this an emergency of sorts. You might not think that you are a part of this village but you are, like or not. We are an small community, almost a family. And sometimes people are feeling left out by the way you are. And sometimes people think that you just don't care. And I think that it's about time that someone tells you that.

Louisa Glasson

Stewart can help you. He's the ranger for that area.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

To be honest I would prefer not. His best friend is a 6 feet squirrel.

Louisa Glasson

Martin, there are twenty things about you that are crap.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

Thank you.

Louisa Glasson

But if you were a stick of rock, you'd be Martin Ellingham all the way through.

Louisa Glasson

Underneath the gruff, monosyllabic, well-meaning but rude person, you're... gruff, monsyllabic, and, well, rude.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

What about well-meaning?

Dr. Martin Ellingham

(Looking into Louisa's eyes) You're so beautiful. You're so very beautiful - d'you know that? All I think about, every day, is just catching a glimpse of you.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

(Whispers) Oh, Louisa!

Louisa Glasson

(Whispers) Shhh. Don't spoil it.

Dr. Martin Ellingham

I love you. I love you.

Louisa Glasson

Martin, this bloody table's in the way.